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# dizzy

«dizzy» in Mova's school dictionary: **spinning and you might fall over** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (dizzy, dizzier, dizziest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Dizzy means feeling as if everything is spinning and you might fall over. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dizzy/#m1)

2) Dizzy can describe something that makes you feel that way: dizzy heights. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dizzy/#m2)

3) Informally, a dizzy person is silly or forgetful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dizzy/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In health and safety lessons: you can feel dizzy after spinning, standing up fast, being too hot, not drinking enough water or hitting your head; sit down, drink water and tell an adult, and get help after a head bump. In science, the fluid in your inner ear keeps spinning after you stop, which makes you dizzy. Phrases: feel dizzy, dizzy spell, dizzy with excitement.

### examples

- I spun round and round until I felt dizzy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dizzy/#x1)
- If you feel dizzy, sit down at once. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dizzy/#x2)
- Standing up too fast made her dizzy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dizzy/#x3)
- The heat made me feel dizzy, so I drank some water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dizzy/#x4)
- Looking down from the tower made him dizzy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dizzy/#x5)
- Tell an adult if you feel dizzy after bumping your head. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dizzy/#x6)
- She was dizzy with excitement on her birthday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dizzy/#x7)
- Spinning rides make me dizzy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dizzy/#x8)
- Soon he became dizzy and faint. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dizzy/#x9)

### note

Spelled with zz. Comparative: dizzier, dizziest. Noun: dizziness. Feeling dizzy often and for no reason is a reason to see a doctor.

### In the corpora

- [Dancers avoid getting dizzy when spinning by spotting: fixing their eyes on one point and whipping the head round to find it again.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/30-dances-of-the-world-and-dancing-at-parties/11/)
- [Spinning round fast confuses the balance organ in your inner ear, and that is why you feel dizzy afterwards.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/2-balance-and-falling-well/11/)
- [A girl in England picked foxglove flowers and licked her fingers; she felt sick and dizzy and needed hospital treatment.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/237-plants-that-sting-and-poison/23/)
- [Heat exhaustion can make you dizzy, sick, very tired and give you a headache.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/252-heat-equipment-and-mosquitoes/5/)
- [A boy in England skipped breakfast every day; by mid-morning he felt dizzy and grumpy, and once he fainted in PE.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/306-breakfast-the-school-day-and-homework/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dizzy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dizzy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.